The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Whatever I do is out of love.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.